Books Read in 2015

  1. The Hanging Judge; Michael Ponsor (arc) - 4/5 (Jan)
  2. Lost and Found; Brooke Davis (arc) - 4/5 (Jan)
  3. Red 1-2-3 ; John Katzenbach (audio) (library) - 3.5/5 (Jan)
  4. Life Drawing; Robin Black (eGalley) - 4.5/5 (Jan) 
  5. First Snow; Perter McCarty (library) - 4/5 (Jan)
  6. One Snowy Night; M. Christina Butler and Tina McNaughton (library) - 5/5 (Jan)
  7. Station Eleven; Emily St. John Mandel - (audio)  - 4/5 (Jan)
  8. The Girl on the Train; Paula Hawkins - 4/5 - (egalley) (Jan)
  9. The Tiny Wife; Andrew Kaufman - 4.5/5 - (print) (Jan)
  10. Calling Me Home; Julie Kilber 4/5 (audio/print) (Jan)
  11. Bones & All; Camille DeAngelis - 4.5/5 (arc) (Jan)
  12. There Was a Little Girl: the Real Story of My Mother & Me; Brooke Shields - 3/5 (audio) (Jan)
  13. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy; Rachel Joyce - 4/5 (eGalley) (Feb) 
  14. The Bone Orchard; Paul Doiron - 3.5/5 (audio) (Feb)
  15. A Fireproof Home for the Bride; Amy Scheibe - 3/5 (arc) (Feb) 
  16. Food: A Love Story; Jim Gaffigan - 4/5 (audio) - (Feb) 
  17. Aquarium; David Vann - 5/5 (eGalley) - (Feb) 
  18. The Half Brother; Holly LeCraw - 2/5 (arc) (Feb)
  19. Foreign Gods, Inc.; Okey Odibe - 4.5/5 (audio) (Feb) 
  20. Cat & Bunny; Mary Lundquist; 5/5 (library) (Feb) 
  21. The Drop; Dennis Lehane - 4/5 (arc) (Feb) 
  22. The Interestings; Meg Wolitzer - 3.5/5 (audio) (Feb) 
  23. A Letter to My Cat; Lisa Espamer - 5/5 (library) (Feb)
  24. The Edge of Eternity; Ken Follett - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Feb)
  25. In Wilderness; Diane Thomas - 3.5/5 (arc) (March)
  26. Etta and Otto and Russell and James; Emma Hooper - 4/5 (arc) (March)
  27. Glamourpuss; Sarah Weeks & David Small - 4/5 (March)
  28. World Gone By; Dennis Lehane - 4/5 (arc) (March
  29. Everything I Never Told You; Celeste Ng - 4.5/5 (audio) (March)
  30. Fiercombe Manor; Kate Riordan - 3/5 (arc) (March)
  31. The Martian; Andy Weir - 5/5 (audio) (March)
  32. Fetch; Jorey Hurley - 5/5 (library) (March)
  33. Findng Spring; Carin Berger 3.5/5 (library) (March)
  34. Us, David Nicholls 4/5 (eGalley) (March)
  35. The Invention of Wings; Sue Monk Kidd 4.5/5 (eGalley) (March)
  36. A Little Life; Hanya Yanagihara - 5/5 (personal copy) (March)
  37. The Adventures of Beekle; the Unimaginary Friend; Dan Santat - 5/5 (library) (March)
  38. Where Women are Kings; Christie Watson; 4.5/5 (arc) (April)
  39. ZooBorns: Motherly Love; Bleiman and Eastland - 4/5 (eGalley) (April)
  40. The Children's Crusade; Ann Packer - 4/5 (eGalley) (April)
  41. Inside the O'Briens; Lisa Genova - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (April)
  42. Someone is Watching; Joy Fielding - 4/5 (eGalley) (April)
  43. West of Sunset; Stewart O'Nan - 4/5 (personal copy) (April)
  44. Accidents of Marriage; Randy Susan Meyer (eGalley) 3.5/5 (April)
  45. I Regret Everything: A Love Story; Seth Greenland (library) - 4.5/5 (April)
  46. Eileen; Ottessa Moshfegh - (arc) 4.5/5 (April)
  47. The Shore; Sara Taylor - 4.5/5 - (arc)  (May)
  48. The Listener; Rachel Basch - 4/5-  (eGalley) (May)
  49. You Nest Here With Me; Yolen and Semple - 5/5 (personal copy) (May)
  50. I Saw a Man; Owen Sheers - 3.5/5 (eBook) (May)
  51. Love May Fail; Matthew Quick -4/5 (arc) (May)
  52. The Grasshopper and the Ants; Jim Pinkney - 5/5 (library) (May
  53. The People in the Trees; Hanya Yanagihara - 4,5/5 (audio) (May)
  54. Big Ray; Michael Kimball - 3.5/5 - (personal copy) (May)
  55. Beside the Sea; Veronique Olmi Page - 4.5/5 (library) (June)
  56. Liar's Bench; Kim Michelle Richardson - 3.5/5 (arc) (June)
  57. Radiant Angel; Nelson Demille -4/5 (audio) (June)
  58. Tad and Dad; David Ezra Stein - 5/5 (personal copy) (June)
  59. The Farmer and the Clown; Marcia Frazee - 5/5 (library) (June)
  60. It's Only Stanley; Jon Agee - 4.5/5 (library) (June)
  61. The Life We Bury; Allen Eskens - 4.5/5 (personal copy) (June)
  62. Glaciers; Alexis Smith - 1/5 (personal copy) - (June)
  63. Creatures of A Day and Other Tales of Psychotherapy; Irvin Yalom - 4.5/5 (library) (July)
  64. Find the Good; Heather Lende - 5/5 (publisher) (July)
  65. Hyacinth Girls; Lauren Frankel - 3.5/5 (arc) (July)
  66. My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She's Sorry; Fredrik Backman - 3/5 (eGalley) (July)
  67. Descent; Tim Johnston - 4/5 (eGalley) (July)
  68. Tampa; Alissa Nutting - 4/5 (library) (July)
  69. Best Boy; Eli Gotlieb - 3.5/5 (eGalley) (July)
  70. If You Were a Panda Bear; Florence and Wendell Minor - 4/5 (library) (July)
  71. Daylight Starlight Wildlife; Wendell Minor - 5/5 (library) (July)
  72. Invisible Ellen; Shari Shattuck - 4/5 (sent by pub) )July)
  73. I Was Here Gayle Forman - 2.5/5 (audio) (July)
  74. Finders Keepers; Stephen King - 4.5/5 (print) (library) (July)
  75. A Long Way Home; Louise Penny - 3.5/5 (audio) (library) (July) 
  76. Summerlong; Dean Bakopoulos - 4.5/5 (ebook) (Aug)
  77. Wind/Pinball; Haruki Murakami - 4/5 (audio/eGalley) (Aug)
  78. What I Remember Most; Cathy Lamb - 4.5/5 (eBook) (Aug)
  79. Max the Brave; Ed Vere - 4.5/5 (arc) (Aug)
  80. Trapped: A Whale's Rescue; Burleigh & Minor - 5/5 (sent by author/ill) (Aug)
  81. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory; Caitlin Doughty - 4.5/5 (library) (Aug)
  82. The Sunken Cathedral; Kate Walbert - 4/5 (eGalley) (Aug)
  83. The Last September; Nina de Gramont - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Sept)
  84. The Fall of Saints; Wanjiku wa Ngugi - 3/5 (eGalley) (Sept)
  85. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; Stieg Larsson - 4/5 (audio & print) (Sept)
  86. Llama llama Gram and Grandpa; Anna Dewdney - 5/5 (print) (Sept)
  87. Did You Ever Have a Family; Bill Clegg - 4.5/5 (eGalley) (Sept)
  88. The Hollow Heart; Viola DiGrado - 4/5 (print) *Sept)
  89. The Heart Goes Last; Margaret Atwood - 5/5 (audio & ebook) (Sept)
  90. Our Souls at Night; Kent Haruf - 5/5 (audio) (Oct)
  91. The Gates of Evangeline; Hester Young - 4/5 (audio and eGalley) (Oct)
  92. Becoming Ellen; Shari Shattuck - 3.5/5 (print & eGalley) (Oct)
  93. The Beautiful Bureaucrat; Helen Phillips - 4.5/5 (print) (Oct)
  94. We Were Brothers: a memoir; Barry Moser - 4/5 (eGalley) (Oct)
  95. This is Your Life Harriet Chance; Jonathan Evison - 5/5 (eGalley) (Oct)
  96. Peg & Cat: The Race Car Problem; Jennifer Oxley & Billy Aronson - 4/5 (print) (Oct)
  97. The Lake House; Kate Morton - 3.5/5 (arc) (Oct)
  98. It's. Nice. Outside; Jim Kokoris - 4.5/5 (arc) (Oct)
  99. Salem's Lot; Stephen King - 4.5/5 (audio) (Oct)
  100. $2.00 A Day: Surviving on Almost Nothing in AmericaKathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer (NF) (- 4.5/5 (library) (Nov)
  101. The Mare; Mary Gaitskill - 4.5/5 (arc) (Nov)
  102. Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories; A. Niffenegger (eGalley) 4.5/5  (Nov)
  103. A Cold and Lonely Place; Sara Henry - 3.5/5 (ibraryaudio) (Nov)
  104. Being Mortal; Atul Gawande (NF) (audio) - 5/5 - (Nov)
  105. Wildflower; Drew Barrymore - ((NF) (ebook& audio) - 4/5 (Nov)
  106. The Little Snowplow; Koehler - (sent by pub) - 4/5 (Nov)
  107. Peppa Pig and the Day at the Museum (sent by pub) - 5/5 (Nov)
  108. Avenue of Mysteries; John Irving (arc) - 3/5 (Nov)
  109. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up; Marie Kondo - (print) 4/5 (Dec)
  110. A Newport Christmas Wedding; Shelley Noble (eBook) - 3/5 (Dec)
  111. Shadows on a Maine Christmas: An Antique Print Mystery; Lea Wait (eBook) 2.5/5 (Dec)
  112. This is the Earth; Diane Shore & Jessica Alexander  & Wendell Minor- (print) 3/5 (Dec)
  113. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood & Scientology Leah Remini (NF)-(eBook) 4.5/5 (Dec)
  114. The Journey of the Penguin; Emiliano Ponzi - (print) - 5/5 (Dec)

2 comments:

  1. Hi, Diane!
    Have you read We Are all Completely Beside Ourselves? Karen Joy Fowler. I found it an amazing read. I get such great book recommendations from you (on your blog) I wanted to return the favor!

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    1. Gracie, no I haven't, but am now adding it to my TBR list -- it sounds really good; thank you

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